New nuclear power plants in the UK, and the downfall of humanity

Okay, I admit it's a somewhat sensationalist title, but hopefully you'll see what I'm talking about soon enough.

So, if you follow UK news at all (and frankly, even if you're in the UK you probably don't because it's all fearmongering shite nowadays) you might have heard that the politicians have decided that, yes, we might actually find nuclear power useful, and maybe we should get in on that.

BBC News:
The first of a planned new generation of nuclear power plants in the UK has been given approval.

Energy Secretary Ed Davey told MPs in the Commons that he was granting planning consent for French energy giant EDF to construct Hinkley Point C in Somerset.

The proposed £14bn power plant would be capable of powering five million homes.

Mr Davey said the project was "of crucial national importance" but environmental groups reacted angrily.

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Hooray! Energy for all! Wave of the future and all that!
... but of course, it's not that simple, is it?

See, there's this term we use in this country. NIMBYs. It stands for "Not In My Back Yard"s, which I find odd since we Brits don't particularly use the term 'yard'. but I suspect 'Garden' wouldn't be so pithy an acronym, but I digress.

I don't usually do this, but on this occasion, and as someone who vehemently believes nuclear power is a rather pressing necessity for the UK, I decided to check the comments for this article.

Oh... that was a poor decision.

Speechless! Only in the UK could we be stupid enough to dislike wind farms yet like Nuclear! The German people/government/industry were smart enough to take one look at Fukishima and kill nuclear once and for all. Yet us - an island nation - supposedly can't live without it! To use the term of Homer Simpson - the worlds most famous nuclear power employee whose standards sum up the industry - Doh!

The combination of Tsunami risk and terrorism makes nuclear a very costly option. Onshore and Offshore Wind is by far the cheapest and quickest technology to expand. Hopefully most investment will go to wind and hopefully in the long term DESERTEC vision may be realised.

"For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear it has to be heavily subsidised. They leave to future generations the task, and most of the cost, of making safe sites that have been polluted half-way to eternity."

There are many more, but these had the best overall legibility.
It seems the general public learned nothing from Fukushima, except that things tend to go tits-up when a region is hit with a massive earthquake and a tsunami. Maybe nuclear reactors are like lightning rods for natural disasters?
Damn! Maybe we should think twice about building it in a country so overwhelmed by all these damn tsunamis like the UK.

In 1607 a massive sea water flood hit the Bristol Channel. It is thought that this may well have been a Tsunami caused by a landslide under the sea. Many people were killed and some churches still have the flood markers to indicate just how high the waters rose. Will Hinkley Point become another Fukushima ?
Nuclear Power - No Thanks. Build coal powered stations.

We can barely go a mere four hundred years without suffering one of the damn things!
I despair sometimes. I really do.

Also, the terrorism comment was particularly terrifying. It reminded me of that one day, quite a few years ago, where a couple of buses exploded. And of course, all the terrorism that's happened since, like...
... The, err... the thing. Remember the thing? Yeah, it was chilling. All those subsequent buses were horrifyingly late.